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  • The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer: Ch 7, pt 1

    Last chapter Mara was being chased by the hallucination of her dead crush. This chapter she flings open a random door to get away, and lo and behold, it’s her next classroom.  We jump straight into a scene about how absolutely terrible her Spanish teacher is.  Jude has been completely forgotten.  So, yeah, chalk that…

  • The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer: Chs 5-6

    Last chapter we left off with the Designated Love Interest.  This chapter, one cliché disappears in the blink of an eye (literally) and another cliché walks up.  Enter the Mean Girl. “Watch it,” the girl said. With venom. Watch what? I hadn’t done anything Wow.  I can tell we’re going to get such astounding character…

  • The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer: Chs 3 – 4

    Apparently we are done with the hospital scene and Mara learns exactly nothing else about the building collapse, because neither the police or fire department could figure anything out about why it fell, because we skip right on ahead to Rachel’s funeral. We get some of Mara ruminating on what’s happened since then.  She’s been…

  • The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer: Prologue – Ch 2

    This review was originally written and posted in December 2014. This book starts out with a forward from the titular Mara Dyer explaining to us that she’s using a pen name.  She claims that a lawyer made her pick one, and that she has to speak up because there’s some seemingly normal teenager who is…

  • City of Heavenly Fire: Epilogue

    Some amount of time later (late spring, but when did the bulk of the book take place?  I can’t remember) Clary, Magnus, and Isabelle stand outside of Simon’s school and spy on him leaving for the day.  Clary approaches to talk to him, describing herself as an old friend and mentioning that her mom is…

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